Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Serval. The serval is a medium-sized African wild cat. DNA studies have shown that the serval is closely related to the African golden cat and the caracal. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
Word forms: plural harrows. countable noun. A harrow is a piece of farm equipment consisting of a row of blades fixed to a heavy frame. When it is pulled over ploughed land, the blades break up large lumps of soil.
In agriculture, a harrow (often called a set of harrows in a plurale tantum sense) is an implement for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil.In this way it is distinct in its effect from the plough, which is used for deeper tillage.pike harrow depicted on a 16th century German coat-of-arms. An Arabic reference to harrows is to be found in Abu Bakr Ibn Wahshiyya 's Nabatean Agriculture (Kitab al-Filaha al-Nabatiyya), of the 10th century, but claiming knowledge from Babylonian sources. In Europe, harrows were first used in the Middle Ages.